[Southpaw]

Thanks for input Double Lab. It maybe just my problem with fat fingers, its just that left trigger cuts into finger after about a box of shells. Was just wondering if others had issues. Won't be a problem for me much longer though since boys shoot righty and can actually shoot her pretty good. But I like shooting old doubles so may have to find a Parker with a single trigger. My dad just picked up a 12 gauge Parker that is Vulcan same as the one I have in 16. Shooting it did the same thing to my finger. Oh well I guess I just have to wear fashionable shooting gloves whenever break out a Parker with double triggers as my fouling piece.

BTW that is great looking lab you have. Looks like the second lab I trained that I raised from a pup. His mother was my first lab and she was a direct descendant from River Oaks Corky that was bred to some Kellog dogs that were trained for Seeing Eye Dogs. She was runt of the litter and was given to me by my vet that was a duck hunting buddy of my dad and myself and we belonged to same church. Anyway she was about a year old when I got her and she was dang smart but was told she was just not a hard charging dog, vet said she took too much to Kellog side but since price was right (free) that she would be a great dog to learn on to train and to see if I could bring out the River Oaks Corky in her. I bonded and trained her up. Her nose was awful and she would retrieve but she did not like it. Probably best swimming dog I ever had. Her back never got wet she floated so high in the water.

First duck hunt with her was with all our buddies and the Vet that gave her to me. It was miserable cold low twenties and howling while spitting snow, we were hunting a flooded corn field that was forming ice in front of us as we stood there. First flight comes in and we knock a bunch down and all the dogs go churning through the water and breaking ice on the retrieves. I send my dog and she just looks up with me with these pitiful eyes and ice on her whiskers and just makes this shivering growl at me. I never heard so much laughing at my expense. I just spent 8 months training this dog and knew she would do it but also knew she did not love it, she just went thru the motions. All my Vet said to me as he was crying from laughing so hard was that I knew she was smart but just did not know she was that smart. She was a great dog though loved her to death. All she wanted to do was be next to me and as companion dog she excelled. She grinned like a Cheshire Cat every time she saw me, even until the day she died.

Her son was ever bit of her and then some since I bred her to another AKC field champion named Maximilian. Rufus turned out to be as smart and loyal as his mom, but was also hard charging. I swear if I did not have to go off to college I think I could have trained that dog to piss in a toilet, flush and then bring a beer to me from the fridge on his way back to sit next to me.